Krauthammer made this effort on tonight’s Fox News program run by Brit Hume.
Charles didn’t say anything that FReepers haven’t been saying the past 32 hours or so.
Krauthammer identifies very well the fundamental inconsistencies and flaws of the speech. IMO It really was in a very complex way, as racist or biased as the sermons by Wright.
Actually, the best short description of Obama’s speech was:
“I have a Dream.” - Martin Luther King.
“I have an Excuse.” - Barack Hussein Obama.
Charles Krauthammer just hammered Obama on Fox News. Saying essentially he (Obama) was sitting up in his celestial palace passing judgment on others in his speech and today’s comments about his white Grandmother about race while he sat on his sanctimonious throne as if he was above it all!
Is it just me or is Krauthammer alway right all of the time.
Obama showed disrespect to his grandmother for political cover. He is Randall Flag.
A Church's theology is not defined by one minister, it is defined by the Elders, Deacons and members. Until such time that Obama renounces his Church and the theology it practices, this guy has zero chance of being President or VP.
Geraldine Ferarro, to her credit, is not taking Obama's crap analogy about her comment VS Wright's twenty year history of racial bomb throwing and few have failed to notice how Obama Badly used his white grandmother for his political advantage. Obama will hold his core supporters but the independents will have second thoughts. Obama has already shown a decline in the polls.
Had it on the TiVo. My transcript of Krauthammer’s words follows:
I wasn’t offended by the reference to a “typical white person”, but there is a certain irony here. Here he is engaging in the racial stereotyping of his own white Grandma, two days after he dumped on her for engaging in what? Racial stereotyping.
It would be comical if it didn’t point out the incredible self-righteousness of Barack Obama. He appears unaware of what he did.
Look. Here’s a guy who had to give a speech because he’d been in this close relationship for 20 years with a raving racist. So what does he do? He gets up there and says “You know, this is a teaching moment, I’m going to instruct you on race relations in America.” And in his speech, did he apologize once? Did he once admit error? Did he even admit a lapse in judgment? No! He dumped on Ferraro, Grandma, Reverend Wright, black racists, white racial resentment, everybody is at fault except him, and he hovers above all of this in his celestial, uh, status up there and passes judgment and says “Come to me, I will heal our Nation.” It is an amazing performance.
Krauthammer's right that it was wrong for Obama to equate his grandmother with Rev. Wright:
The moral equivalence is on the one hand you have Jeremiah Wright, and on the other hand you have Geraldine Ferraro ... and grandma, who occasionally would utter a private, racist epithet, as if she had shouted these in a crowded church or a crowded theater as a way to arouse and envenom the audience as Wright did.
Obama is a guy who glories in his capacity for intellectual distinctions. There is a huge distinction between a woman of the generation of a Truman, who also uttered epithets about Jews and blacks in private, and the propagation of race hatred in a congregation on behalf of a pastor.
I don't get that Grandma was saying racist epithets, though. Just that she was scared of Black men and laughed at some inappropriate jokes. I'm also not sure about this:
This kind of extenuation is what you used to hear from Jesse Jackson, except in Obama's case, dressed up in Ivy League language and Harvard Law School nuance.
It sounds like a gratuitous dig to say that Obama's speech was like something you'd hear from Jackson except that it wasn't much like what you'd hear from Jackson, who fit more into the naive bigot category.
“Much to my surprise Charles Krauthammer came up with the best..”
I know how much that pains you to say. ;)
Interesting. Now that I think about this ‘historic’ speech, that liberal experts say is of the greatest of all time - I do not recall MLK or JFK bringing up such petty political events as the Ferraro comment in a groundbreaking speech. They would speak only of lofty goals and accomplishments, not single out supporters of their political opponents.
The left is trying to foist a two-bit political hack on our country, portraying him as some sort of a once in a lifetime historic figure. He’s nothing of the sort.
Like it or not, he now has to choose a side but personally I think its too late and the damage is done.
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